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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-06-24
The True Method

Of curing babitual constipation, and
liver and kidney ills is to avoid the use
OF the bitter drastic liver medicines and
cathartics, and to take only the pleasant
liquid fruit remedies, Syrup of Figs. 1t
cleanses as we'll as strengthens the sys-
TEN, and does not leave the bowels cost.
i've, SO that regular habits may be form.
ed and the invalid permanently restored
to health. 1t acts promptly and effect.
lively; it is easily taken, and perfectly
harmless. For sale in SO cents and 81
bottles by T. l. Mckenny, Druggist
Olympia, w. T.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-06-24

STRAWBERRIES, ice cream, and all the
accomplishments nicely fixed up for
ladies and gentlemen at Rangers.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-03-18
The first big fish story-that of Jonah

The first big fish story-that of Jonah
The key to life's mvsterv-1'he Mon
KEY.
Hops are plentiful when the dancing
season sets in.
An unfavorable outlook from be-
hind the prison bars.
The man who struck an attitude has
not Vet been arrested.
An unsteady man, like an unsteady
light. is apt to 90 out at nights.
Fishing is called angling because so
many crooked stories are told about it.
The man who was born with silver
spoon in his mouth is now looking
about for something to eat with the
spoon.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-03-18
How "Curfew' Was Written.

OF the hundreds of residents of the
city of San Antonio. Texas, only few
who frequently meet a tall, slender Ia
DIV, with raven brown eyes and hair,
and with a singular attractiveness in
her face. know that she is Mrs. Rost
Hartwick Thorpe, whose famous poem,
"Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight"
has given her a reputation in both
hemispheres. How, at the age of six
teen years, the young country girl was
led to write poem Sd widely known is
thus narrated, and furnished by her
personally for this publication: ''The
poem was suggested to me by the read.
ing of a story, love and Loyalty in
1867. [ was then a plain country
schoolgirl. not yet Il years of age, re-
siding with my parents at Litchfield,
Mich. and under the pretext of work
ing ont mathematical problems, with
my arithmetic before me, | wrote the
poem roughly on my slate. | was
forced to carry on my literary work
under these difficulties because of the
opinion of my parents that my time
could be better employed than in idle
dreams and useless rhymes. | wrote
the first copy ON my slate between 4
and 6 o'clock in the afternoon, but
much time has since been spent in cor
recting and revising it. | had no
thought that | would ever be able to
write anything worthy of public not
ice. The poem was first published In
ihe Detroit Commer.iu{ Adocrtiser in
the fall of 1870. The poem at once
attracted popular attention. and be
slowed upon its Young author a repu-
tation which each succeeding year has
enlarged. Although it has been pub
lished in innumerable forms and diff
ferent books and collections. and has
| been translated INTO the French. ter
man and other languages. the poem
has never brought its author any finan-
cial remuneration, as is too often the
case. 1T raised me-. writes Mrs.
Thorpe, from shy. obscure country
girl into public notice, and brings tc
my side yearly hosts of new and de.
lightful friends" Mrs. Thorpe spend;
her summers in her native climate Of
Michigan. where she yearly recuper.
ates from the effects of Texan winter
The author is 36 wears of age. is happi
| ly married, and is enabled to quietly
enjoy the respect and love of her neigh
bors and friends. while her literary ad
mirerS are legion.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-03-18
The Kitchen Table.

One of the most important features
of kitchen is the kitchen table, and
Good Housekeeping has this to say in
regard to keeping it clean: '.The ideal
kitchen table is the one scrubbed to
ivory whiteness, and, as scrubbing is
one of the lost arts, l will give direc-
tions for scrubbing properly. If the
table is to be uncovered it needs daily
scrubbing to keep it white, but if it is
scrubbed daily in the usual way it
may get darker day by day. Old han-
mel of all kinds should be kept for
scrubbing and cleaning paint-under-
vests. drawers, shirts. all come in for
it. In England. where scrubbing is
still the glory Of the poorer people.
cottagers wing with with each
other on the color of their boards.
there is coarse, gray flannel made
called "house-flannel,' expressly for
that purpose. Next to flannel, is old,
coarse, soft linen, old kitchen towels,
crash, etc. So necessary to good clean
ing is soft, absorbent material that |
would almost rather my maids destroy
articles of far more value than the
scrub-cloths, because the supply is so
limited.
Nearly all garden plants can be ben
efitted more or less by having an APP
plication of good wood ashes, thorough
ly worked into the soil around the
roots. This should always be done
with manure of every kind, if the sur
est and the best results are DESIRED
The fertilizers must be placed where
the feeding roots of the plants can
! readily reach them.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-03-18
What A Dakota Blizzard Is.

In his article on ''The Home of the
Blizzard" in the March number of
The Cosmopolitan, Joel Benton gives a
graphic picture Of the tcrrors of a Da-
kota blizzard:
There is no denying that snow often
falls in Dakota in most exasperating
way. The blizzard really does occur.
Certain statistics relating to it can be
expatiated npon so as to send shiver
to your very bones. Newspaper para
graphs appear now and then that put
the matter in the worst light.
When a blizzard occurs it is, OF
course. desirable to be near good
harbor, for it fills the air so thickly
that YOU cannot see but few feet
from where you stand. 1t is conven-
lent then to have rope if you want to
60 from the house to the barn. Usu-
ally, though, it is imprudence that
takes one out on the open prairie dur
ing a storm Of this sort. In a few in
stances children on their way home
from school. or mail carriers, or coun-
try doctors, and sometimes needless
farmers, have suffered from this storm.
Colonel Lounsberry describes in graph
ic terms in a recent contribution to
the Northwest Aogarine, a storm that
occurred many years ago; but he says
that since 1875 he has seen nothing in
Northern Dakota ':that approached
the dignity or possessed the business
qualifications Of blizzard. Without
snow a blizzard has no capital to work
on. and the SHOWS do not accumulate
in Northern Dakota until after the
blizzard season passes.
He says that when one does occur,
the weather ''turns cold, and each sep
arate flake of snow becomes "a parti-
Gle of ice" and leach has business at
some other point than where it fell
As the wind would lift fine dust and
whirl it through the air, so this body
of snow is lifted. To distinguish the
form of human being ten feet away
is impossible. \ barn even cannot be
seen twenty feet in front of one. 1t is
mad. rushing. combination of wind
and snow. which neither man nor
beast can face The snow finds its
way through every crack and crevice. "
Colonel Lounsberry speaks, too, of
':many instances where persons have
been lost in trying to go from the
house to the barn. and Of other instan-
ces where cords were taken from the
beds and fastened to the house, so that,
if the barn should be missed, by hold
ing on to the bed-cord, the house
could be found again" But suppose,
like Damocles', the cord should break.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-03-18
JAVA CLOTH.
ADVANCE STYLES IN DRESS GOODS

DOUBLE-WIDTH MIXED SCITINGS
"a inches wide, 12Rc per yard.
36-inch Novelty Cashmere, size. per yard.
The prettiest goods yet shown. Ask to see
those yard wide Plain checks, 4Sc. par yard,
worth 65c.. in all the New Spring Suitings.
Beautiful patterns in new colorings, in
checks and plaids. in all the different grades
Our Exhibition Of Fine dress Goods never
has been equaled.
Our Spring Styles are rapidly Coming in.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-03-18

ted garments, smiling as he drank it,
and Juno would have liked Young
friend of hers to take Hebe's place.
This friend WAS Il Young prince of
Troy. by the NAME of Ganvmede. Be
ing very romantic, he WAS shepherd.
and tented his flock upon Mount Ida.
He had applied very often to Juno to
be able to serve the mighty God of
heaven with nectar, that il. to become
his cup-bearer, for he was aware how
much juno admired grace and beauty ;
therefore he relied upon his own exqui-
site face and form.
One day Hebe appeared more beauti-
full than ever. and created such stir of
admiration upon the heights Of Olvm-
puS. that Juno came to the conclusion
that the sooner she got her in disfavor
with ,Ioye, tlle more peace she would
have herself; So she sent fer Ganvmede
to come directly to Olympus.
He was immediately borne to heaven
by mighty eagle, who set him down
near the dwelling Of the gods. Juno
told him that not only she, but Venus,
too, was very jealous Of Hebe's beauty,
and if they could only get her into dis
favor. Jove would Immediately dis
charge her As his cup-bearer. But that
he must try and think of Il plan TO get
rid of her.
"Hebe must appear TO lack grace in
some movement" she said. but as we
cannot disfgure her face. we must ap
pear clumsy in some way.
Suddenly an idea entered Ganymede's 5
head. why cannot We cause her to
trip as She movesquickly towards Juno,
and dash the golden gebet to the
ground then ,Jove. whose temper. You
are aware, is not always the best on such
occasions. will wish for some one els
to take her place: then ! will become
! h;s cup bearer. and your admiration
alone. great Juno will fill ne with de-
light.
This plan pleased Juno very much
but the first thing they must think OF
was how to cause Hche to trip. At las
they decided upon waxing th2 floor We
~ near to where she always handet
Jove his nectar. and is she was YER,
QEick of foot. she was. if not certain t.
| fall. at least sure to stumble. juno
then had this all prepared, without the
knowledge of any save her accomplice
One bright day, when the birds upon
Olympus We're singing their jovou:
song. and all were bcaming with sun
shine while the flowers lifted their glat
heads to inhlle the morning air. the
gods and @oddesSr~ We're assembled il
the great banqnet hall, waiting for thei
nectar and ambrnsia 10 be brought t,
them. vt .Iovc'> call the light-footed
IIebe came skipping along carrying il
her dainty hands the thunderer's gol
den goblet. that it Was his habit to drar
at single draugh.
Who, 4, ghry gazr, upon this beau
tiful anI healthful Young GOODIES
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-03-18
poetrp
THE PRIME OF LIFE

| read the sentence or hea: il Sppk IN
a s.alwart phrase and and with meaning rife
And | sad New l know, by youths sweet token
That this !, the time called tie prime Of life
'tFor ms hopes soar over the loitiest mouatain,
And the future glows red, Ike a fair sunrise
And my spirits gns forth, like springfield fountain
And never . @ref in the heart Of M lies.
Yet latcron, wlan with BIB ,d and muscle
Equipped plunged in the worlds hard strife.
When loved its danger aai laughed at the tuss!e
why ttj<,- said sis the prime of life
And Then. when the tide in my veins slower,
Ard yon;h's first focs had passed away,
When the trven: ti.eS my heart burned lower.
And over M body my brain had sway.
said L : wiIcn tr IL "a :c y4i:ci deal
The vigorous Reason ti'"rst '-''i'''
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-03-18
r. :.Hebe shall no longer be my cup.

der. ':Hebe shall no longer be my cup
bearer. | will elect another in her
place"
Juno pretended 10 feel very sorry for
her poor daughter, and whispered to
the Trojan prince to step forth humbly
and pray the god to give him the hon
orable position. This he did, and wrath
full Jove willingly granted to him, while
poor Hebe wept bitterly as she left the
banquet hall, and Juno wore upon her
stern countenance a smile of tri-
umph.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-03-18
9ints to Agritultnrists..
The Lar rest Farm in the Wcr.d.

In the extreme southwest corner Of
Louisiana lies the largest producing
farm in the world. 1t runs hundred
miles north and south, and many miles
east and west, and is owned and oper-
ated by a syndicate of Northern capi-
talists. Their general manager, j. B.
Watkins, gives an interesting account
of this gigantic plantation, which
throws the great Dalrymple farm in
in Dakota into the shade completely.
''The 100000 acres Of our tract"
Mr.. Watkins said, :'was purchased i'll
1883 from the State of Louisiana and
from the United States Government.
At that time it was vast grazing land
for the cattle of the few dealers in the
neighborhood. When Itook possession
| found over 10000 head of half-wild
horses and cattle. My work was to
divide the immense tract into convent
ent pastures, establishing stations or
ranches every six miles. The fencing
alone cost in the neighborhood of $50.
600. The land l found to be best a.
dapted to rice, sugar, corn and cotton.
All our cultivating, ditching, etc, is
done by steam power. We take tract,
say half mile wide, for instance, and
place an engine on each side. The en-
gines are portable, and operate cable
attached to four plows, and under this
arrangement we are able to pillow thirty
acres day with only the labor of three
men. Our narrowing, planting, and
other cultivation is done in a like man
ner: in fact. there is not single
draught horse olrthe entire place. We
have, of course, horses for the herders
of cattle, of which We now have 10000
head. The Southern Pacific Railroad
runs for thirty-six miles through our
farm. We have three steamboats, oper-
ating on the waters of our own estate,
upon which there are 800 miles of ma
vigable waters. We have an ice house,
a bank. a ship yard, and Il rice mill"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-03-18
Spring Farm Cleaning.

While the wife cleans the house. let
the husband clean the farm. If vega
table matter is left about the yard, its
decay during the damp, warm wealth
er of spring and summer, will poison
the air and effect the health of the fam
lily. If left about the barn, lot and
fields, it will have like influence on
the farm animals. Hogs are doubly
liable to be injured, for they not only
breathe the fouled air, but nest in the
litter. Farm cleaning will save loss
from disease. The litter has great
value as fertilizer when properly ap-
piled. The intelligent use of this
manure ensures better crops, and the
farm is capable Of more thorough
cultivation. And then how much APP
pearances are improved. Make bon
fire of pieces of wood, brush, stumps.
etc, not fit for fuel, and give the char
coal to the swine and the ashes to the
fruit trees. Remember this work is
not complete until those stumps and
stones are removed which can be tax
en- ont with a reasonable amount of
labor; until the trees about the house
and in the orchard are pruned; until
the old growth is taken from raspber-
ries, gooseberries, currants, etc; until
the 'underbrush" is cleared out of the
wood-lot; until all the bitches are
opened and pools are drained; and in
short until the farm is clean and neat.
Conveniently enough, nearly all. or all
of this work, can be done before the
spring plowing is begun.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-03-18
IN GENTS SHIRTS

Weare running Gents Cnlaundered Shirt
at 47c. This is full length, REINFORCED 20OO
linen bosom and cuf bands, felled seams and
telled bosom, patent stayed and ussetted. per-
feet fitting, and
LAUNDERED SHIRT AT 13c.,
Which 10 the best Wamsutta Musi,. o20O
linen bosom and wristbands, gussetted and
stayed, hand-worked button hole , re-enforc
ed, perfect fitting; sizss-l3a to II, inclusive
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1887-03-18
ADVANCE STYLES IN
GENTS SPRING NECKWEAR.

500 d, zen Mems Spring Ties. in Satin and
Silk Four-in hand and Teck shapes, 25c.
The question has been repeatedly asked ::
How do you sell such beautiful neckw with
such good finish at such = small sum?
We have goods made to order at our sug
gestion, and pay the biggest money to secure
the most for the money.
Our line Of So. Neckw .zr is the nices. yet
shown.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-05

Gen. Joe Johnston tells me that it was
too much like the stars and stripes, and
that the two could not be distinguished
from each other in re fighting. Gen.
Beauregard says thar after the bat
tie OF Bull Run many persons Of
both armies thought that the other
side had put up the enemies flag as IL de-
GOV. and after this Johnston and Beaure-
gard decided to adopt new battle nag
Johnston at first wanted each regiment 10
use its State cOlors, but this was found to
be impracticable, and another flag was
chosen, and in this think Gen. Joe JohG-
ston had something with the invention OF
the design. The design as settled upon
by him and Beauregard became the battle
flag of the Confederacy, and it was after
ward adopted as such by the Confederate
Congress at Richmond.
This flag is known as the Southern
Cross. 1t has u red field, with two wide
blue bars running diagOnally from one
corner to the other, and on these bars were
white or gold stars equal i'll number TO the
states of the Confrderacy. This was real
" the flag of the CumledeTaCy, and IL has
more right to the name than the stars ana
bars. A design similar to this was pre-
scented to the Montgomery convention by
William Porcher Miles, and there is such
a design in this old scrap book. The stars
and bars however, got the preference.
They became known The country over as
the Confederate flag, and they will proba-
bly 90 into history rs such.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-05


In the above do not give tn" fall name
~ The writer may he living, and | aISoSup-
press the name OF the noted southern wo-
man who sent the following letter to JeiteI-
son Davis in the latter part of February,
1851. The letter is well written, and rs |
copy it | can appreciate the thrill that went
through the enthusiastic writer when She
wrote the words:
O~YEA, Pike CO., Mo, Feb, 90, 1861.
The Hyu. JcFo'soa D0ri$, Prc>d'm Of The
B,ior,d Southern Congress:
Being daughter OF the South, | take
the liberty Of sending you the model 0I Il
hag which ! hope may he received with
warm feelings. The white ground Is an
emblem OF innocence; the blue ring, last
lng love; the center, reu' on "'i!ch Is Il
cross, represents CHRISTIAN nation, inc
crescent over lhe cross Is our southern
Conirderacy, anu the green SEARS represent
TN" seven states, AMI ~ IL, THESE are
placed IN a ring iley represent one "''o''
IN the Southern C"nlcHerlry never /" ne
broNen-the name nave CHOSEN Is Ihc
united southern banner =.
: tIcaSe excuse the great ,ioeitS nave
taken IN writing 10 yGu' Dut' IKE Ten.
Washington, you are now looked upon is
the father OF the south, and Know VIII
excise all the liberties the Southern
daughters take.
May God bless the Southern ConiedeT-
acy. ana whenever hloueI Is taken LOT Il
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-05

Nearly all Of these designs are accom-
named bv letters Some are addressed Ia
President Jefferson Davis, some to Alex
amber NJ. stephens, some To Robert lOomhS
and a Great many to William Porcher
Miles. who was the chairman oil the COM
mittee nm lla,cS. All of the letters are full
or feeling and all glow with loyalty to the
nrv government Some are written ny
ladies. and not a few Of the designs are
furnished by them. The Ladies' letters
are the most earnest and enthusiastic
One Georgia woman says she designed
| the lag which she sends herself ana that
she hopes the COntederacy will Secede
pesceably. but whether peaceably or not,
| II VIII secede " A South Carolina mother
pathetiraliv says, dating her letter Feb
ruary 10. 1861, that she has given three
| dear boys to her country, and hopes the
youpg republic will honor the memory OF
| Washington by dating Its organization
/ from the 22d of February, and calling II
| the Washington Republic. She writes Just
As she hears the news that Mr.. Davis has
| been elected President, and she closes her
! letter by saying that the Southern Con
tederacy has the sympathy OF every South,
eru woman-wite. mother and mald-and
that she glories in being woman OF the
South.
Other letters propose that the new gov
Crnment he crlled Alleghenia, and the
great majority OF designs are modelled after
the Il ofthe union. There was very
strong desire among the Southern people to
keep as much ~ possible of the old flag,
and this desire is seen in most of the let
tiers. One letter, which is dated Washing
ton, February %, 1861, beseeches the COM
mittee by all that is sacred to stick to the
stars and stripes. 1t says: "You have
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-05

The Southern cross is found in many of
the designs, and franks with the palmetto
tree and the lone star as n prominent
figure. Some of the ladies designs are very
curious, and some are made of different
cOlOrS of silk and satin neatly stitched to-
getheT and with little stars sewed upon
them. In some cases the designers have
not had the paints to work with, and they
have made their designs of different pieces
of colored paper cut into shape and pasted
together. Here the red, white and blue
predOminateS, and the stripes aud stars IN
nearly every case permit the addition OF
new emblems for the new states as they
came in. One of the ladies' flags is eight
cen inches long, and ii consists of three
series of red, white and red above and be-
low broad stripe of blue, upon which are
sewed seven white stars. These seven
stars represented the seven states which
had already seeded.
~
Some of the designs are very grotesque,
and coming as they do from all classes OF
people, it is not strange that III some the
sublime should tramp very closely upon
the heels of the ridiculous. | give you
here a picture IN black and white of de
sign Al, which was sent to Jefferson DAVIS
from Cofleeville, Ala, but | cannot paint
the wrath with which the cOlOrs seem to
swear ut each other This design is large
enough To cover a good sized library table.
II is made OF heavy drawing paper and is
done in crayon. One part OF the ground
is blue and the other part n dirty yellow.
a u Inc oh -
to the be pole, big black eye Is
painted, and around this, in the
shape of crescent, which faces the
front Of the flag, are seven white stars.
From the eye eight white stripes 20 ont
ward running from the blue into the yell
low and there losing themselves. The let
ter which was sent with this design IS
well written. IL is dated. February 23,
1861, and it is addressed to "Gen. Jefferson
Davis The first paragraph prayS for the
prosperity of the CCntcderacy and the re-
mainder OF the letter is taken up with the
description of the flag. 1t reads:
"Reipg a true Southerner, | have taken
the liberty to send to your care y minia-
ture fa., the emblem Of which would
like to see adopted by Our provisional CON
greSs Us the ensign Of our government.
The cmblcmS rs seen on the ilag were
taken from The last scene of the aurora
boTealis Of the 18th Of September, 1889 TAT
night.
THE eye is a design Of my own, and
may represent, first, the President watch
iug over the nation for the good Of the
people, aud secondly, the all seeing eye OF
God. 10y whose guardian care all nations
have their existence. You can have the
FLAG bordered with whatever color suits
your fancy. Very respectfully your ser
want, l. M.